ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. There is a forum on here for people with it:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum6.html

It's a very unpleasant neurodegenerative disease, worse then MS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotro...eral_sclerosis

This lady, who was on another MS forum, would often come on with "similar" symptoms to what we have, but she never really nailed them. We would respond according to our interpretation of MS, which wouldn't ever really answer her questions.

She knew she was sick, and had her mind made up that it was likely MS because everything seemed so similar. This went on for a few years, and it was hard on her and everyone else who were sincerely trying to help her. All of us were very upset to learn it was ALS.

Cherie